At Starbucks with Edith Stein: A Messianic Jewish Leader Interviews the Famous Catholic-Jewish-Scholar-Saint

Edith Stein wasn’t difficult to spot. Let’s just say that most of the people in the Starbucks in Needham, Massachusetts, dressed and comported themselves very differently from this small, slender woman with the dark eyes, covered in a brown wool habit and black veil. She was sitting alone at a table waiting for me. I think she had agreed to the interview in part because she sensed a certain resonance of spirit with another Jew who had embraced Jesus as the Messiah. After a brief business-like greeting, we sat down and I asked about her choice of beverage—a grande cafe mocha with whip